We have constructed a novel panel dataset of UK manufacturing firms to examine how innovation, proxied by R&D and intellectual property (IP, covering both patents and trade marks), increases firm performance, as measured by firm net output (value added). Knowledge has public good characteristics...

Investigates pricing behaviour in the retail grocery industry, analysing pricing at the micro level of a London submarket. Looks at the extent and effect of recommended resale prices on grocery items. Compares the average expenditure between stores on a given set of items. Examines differences...

Summarizes changing employment patterns. Documents the rising incidence of vocational training for the economically active adult workforce, using data from successive Labour Force Surveys, and considers the issue of positive externalities arising from worker mobility.

This book brings together innovative contributions on the management of intellectual property (IP) and intellectual property rights by an esteemed and multi-disciplinary group of economists, management scientists, accountants and lawyers.

This book brings together innovative contributions on the management of intellectual property (IP) and intellectual property rights by an esteemed and multi-disciplinary group of economists, management scientists, accountants and lawyers.

The incidence of vocational training is influenced by characteristics of workers and firms. The authors investigate the determinants of both employer-arranged training and individually organized training. The data relate to training spells experienced by 2,000 British workers in 1984-87, when...

This paper explores the role of innovation in the determination of both net exports and export prices. The analysis is conducted for thirty-six industry groups covering both manufacturers and services in the United Kingdom. The data are annual time series and these are analyzed using the...

I argue that free-market capitalist economies are biased against inventing/using green technology and against supplying the basic needs of the poor. With no mechanism for setting globally optimal prices for non-renewables, entrepreneurs choose labour-saving resource-intensive production methods....